Omar Defeo

TL;DR: Examining 130 co-managed fisheries in a wide range of countries with different degrees of development, ecosystems, fishing sectors and type of resources demonstrates the critical importance of prominent community leaders and robust social capital for successfully managing aquatic resources and securing the livelihoods of communities depending on them.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief synopsis of the unique physical and ecological attributes of sandy beach ecosystems and review the main anthropogenic pressures acting on the world's single largest type of open shoreline.

TL;DR: This article examined the condition of oyster reefs across 144 bays and 44 ecoregions and found that more than 90% of them have been lost in bays (70%) and ecoregs (63%).

TL;DR: Social, political, and ecological aspects of a transformation in governance of Chile's coastal marine resources, from 1980 to today, are explored, which includes a revolutionary national system of marine tenure that allocates user rights and responsibilities to fisher collectives.

TL;DR: This synthesis suggests that biological interactions are more important regu- latory agents than previously thought in benign dissipa- tive beaches or undisturbed sites, intra- and interspecific competition can be more intense than in reflective beach- es or disturbed sites, where the populations are physi- cally controlled.